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Originally Posted by Foreverwar
Would you like to clarify, please? 
I am confused how a man, brought up in Brixton, left school at 16, worked as a clerk at the LEB, took correspondence courses and worked his way up the ladder at a bank, became a Lambeth councillor at 21, is not "a man of the people".
I met him quite a few times, and he was one of the most decent and honourable (low baseline, to be fair) politicians I ever met - he actually was trying to make things better for all, not just a section of society. His government was torn apart by "my way or no way" Eurosceptics. |
John Major ... decent and honourable, you have to be joking! His government consisted of only about half a dozen true eurosceptics, who he called the "*******s" who objected to the party's dealings with the EU. The Maastricht treaty handed over great swathes of power in addition to what Thatcher had conceded without ever explaining what that meant, never mind asking for the people's opinions. And for what? And that's without even talking about all his moralising at the same time as he was carrying on an affair with Edwina Currie. As a man of the people, he sucks! The "people" might not have been aware of his European dealings, but they did the right thing in rejecting him. Shame the alternative was Blair.
http://www.eurotreaties.com/maastrichtext.html
If you are still confused, I can provide more details later, or you can tell me why I am wrong in my thinking.
The swearing filter in action
. Major referred to the sceptics as being fatherless.